Between 1964 and 1965 there occurred a scandal that few remember now, almost as if it has slipped from the popular memory. Known as The Bronswik Affair, it started when normal members of the public began to exhibit strange behaviour, such as the housewife who fed forty-seven packets of washing powder into her washing machine […]
Make America great again: The nostalgia of the collective unconscious in market societies, this is what I call retrocapitalism.
Alena Petitt, a well-known author and lifestyle blogger, has become the British face of the “Tradwife” movement, closely associated with the hashtag #TradWife. The movement harks back to an earlier era, encouraging women to take pleasure in traditional domestic duties while promoting feminine submissiveness, domesticity, and wifehood. In a BBC clip, Petitt explains that her […]
This article is a translation of “¿Qué es el Retrocapitalismo?,” published in El Libertario on the 3rd of June 2019. I loosely place my first retrocapitalist experience by the time when found out about the eight bits music (aka chiptune). I can’t recall how, but found the album The 8 Bits of Christmas, with soundtracks […]
It’s no secret that ever since the 2000s, several retail chain stores have experienced financial setbacks. These hardships only became worse after the financial crisis of 2008 and the rise of online shopping thanks to Amazon. Today, stores such as Sears, Kmart, Circuit City and Toys R Us have closed most of their locations or gone out of business. […]
We love The Morning Blend. Every once in a while, when someone cancels at the last minute and The Morning Blend has five minutes to fill, we drop by The Morning Blend and talk about whatever. Sometimes we talk about upcoming shows. Sometimes we talk about fishing. Today, we talked about dead malls. Yes, in case you missed our recent pieces on the redeveloping Bayshore mall and […]
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Even the most ardent defenders of capitalism must acknowledge the indignities it occasionally imposes. The toilet seat designed to be uncomfortable with the goal of getting employees back to work quickly seems to capture some of the essence of the criticism that capitalism has jumped the shark. The image of a tiny, […]
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Indigencia, hambre, vergüenza: la pobreza se ceba con el país más rico del mundo, EE. UU. Afecta a 43 millones de ciudadanos, el doble que hace 50 años. Puede aparecer rápidamente: una enfermedad o perder el empleo pueden bastar para dejar a una persona en la calle. En Estados Unidos, muchas personas quedan excluidas del […]
Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of corporations ready to exploit America’s most vulnerable populations in order to get a piece of the pie. For much of the world, donating blood is purely an act of solidarity; a civic duty that the healthy perform to aid others […]